Abid Khan

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Beauty is truth,truth beauty

CV Abid Khan
Date of birth 6-12- 1966
Education M.A English literature Punjab University Lahore 1993

Cell # 0321-4943383
Email: abidkhan21@hotmail.com
235-Omer block allama iqbal town Lahore city Pakistan
Words like terrorism, bloodshed and prejudice are ruling our lives but this is all due to electronic, print and social media; close your eyes you feel closer yourself to Mother Nature everywhere peace , love and harmony prevail depicting true picture of life. Painting or another form of expression is just a little stimulator for the mankind to come out of their self made shell of dignified identities. So I painted nothing but painting…….
No philosophy is required to understand art but we try to mould things in the shapes of intellectual and orthodox cal doctrines; to be appreciated or to be criticized but this is not the reality we are facing today. My painting is nothing or worthless if not beneficial for a common man who is concerned with his daily struggling life because there is no awareness in general public regarding art or painting but human beings are symbolic of love, peace and harmony. It may take hundred of years to realize this phenomenon of life but I strongly believe that my work that is not just depiction of simple landscapes; painted with devotion of my heart and soul is a ray of hope for the mankind.

This world is in the process of transition; things are getting new shapes but nature exists in its true spirit of purity and glory. I have shared my silent soul with the scenic landscape wonders of my land to find peace and tranquility.
I have tried to assert the superiority of imagination over reality on my canvases. This is not to say that my work is without intricacies, for i felt that even the darkest shadows are composed of almost imperceptible gradations of color and light but my canvases may leave some pleasant impressionistic traces of beauty and truth on you as John Keats says;
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
2013 GROUP SHOW AT GALLERY 6 TITLED “MEDLEY OF TENORS” ISLAMABAD
Selected Exhibitions 2012 GROUP SHOW AT SATRANG GALLERY titled “Bend in the SCAPES” Islamabad
2009 GROUP SHOW AT GALLERY 6 Titled “RICHNESS IN COMPARISONS” ISLAMABAD
2010 GROUP SHOW AT VOGUE ART GALLERY titled “SUMMER BREEZE” Lahore
2007 TWO MAN SHOW at NAIRANG GALLERIES Lahore
2008 GROUP SHOW AT EJAZ ART GALLERY Lahore
1999 GROUP EXHIBITION AT NOTICES GALLERY SINGAPORE
1998 GROUP SHOW AT ALLIANCE FRANCEISE GALLERY FRENCH CENTRE Lahore
1997 GROUP SHOW AT SHAKIR ALI MUSEUM LAHORE Auctioned of painting by world renowned auction house CHRISTIE’S 2013 LONDON
2014 SOLO SHOW TITLED LOVE.PEACE.HARMONY. AT EJAZ ART GALLERY LHAORE
2013 SOLO SHOW AT OCEAN ART GALLERY titled “BEAUTY IS TRUTH, TRUTH BEAUTY” KARACHI
1999 SOLO SHOW AT KHAAS THE ART GALLERY ISLAMABAD
1999 SOLO SHOW AT ALHAMRA ART GALLERY Lahore
2001 SOLO SHOW AT ALHAMRA ART GALLERY Lahore
2002 SOLO SHOW AT KUNJ ART GALLERY KARACHI
2003 SOLO SHOW AT NOMAD ART GALLERY ISLAMABAD
2004 SOLO SHOW AT ALHAMRA ART GALLERY Lahore
2005 SOLO SHOW AT GALLERIA CORNER CAFE DUBAI
2005 SOLO SHOW AT KHAAS THE ART GALLERY ISLAMABAD
2007 SOLO EXHIBITION AT NOMAD ART GALLERY ISLAMABAD